Poultry car



De. 30, 1930. l. v. EDGl-:RTON 1,736,427

' PoULTRY CAR original Filed May 19, 1927 Inn-@T5594 Israel U Eager/'tan latented Dec. 3G, 1930 SR-AEL V. EDGERTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOES, ASSIGNOR TO PALACE POULTRY CAR COM- PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS roULTnY CAR i Original application filed Illay 19, 1927, Serial No. 192,609.

1928. Serial l aisle, and formed with a central room or compartment constituting living and sleeping quarters for the attendant in charge of the shipment and for the storage of feed. ln the upper portion of this central coml partment and directly beneath the roof of the car is customarily located a water tank with pipes running therefrom toward the ends of the car for supplying water to the stock. Such water tanks are commonly provided with one or more filling spouts that extend from the top of the tank upwardly through the roof of the car, and are equipped with lids or covers.

It has heretofore proved a matter of some difficulty to make a tight, cinder-proof and water-proof joint between the lling spout or chute of the tank and the roof of the car,

as to prevent cinders and rain from getting into the latter at such joint, and the ob- 39 ject of my present invention is to provide an improved sealed joint between the filling spout or chute and the roof of the car, such as will effectively seal the joint against the access of cinders and water from the outside, and thus prevent the access of cinders to the water tank and the rotting of the wooden roof boards around the filling spout.

IThis application forms a division of an application heretofore led by me on the 19th day of May, i927, semi no. 192,609.

My present improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the central N portion of the car roof directly overlying the ia water tank, showing the latter and a baflie therein by dotted lines beneath the roof, and showing in top plan the lids or covers of the filling spouts;

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the portion of the roof shown in Divided and this application iiled March 19, No. 262,635.

Fig. 1, with the filling spouts appearing in side elevation, and with the water tank partly broken out and in section;

F ig. 3is an enlarged vertical section, on the line 3-3 of F ig. 1, through the car roof, the upper portion of the filling spout, and the seal and closure of the latter;

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates as an entirety the central roof portion of the poultry car, which includes the usual rafters 11 and roof boards 12. Suitably mounted by any approved means (not shown) directly beneath this central portion of the roof is the rectangular water tank designated as an entirety by 13, said tank consisting of a completely enclosed structure including a roof or cover 11i, the sloping sides of which are preferably substantially parallel with the sloping sides of the car roof 10.

lisposed within the tank 13 and extending obliquely` between diagonally opposite corners of the latteris a removable baille comprising a pair of narrow fiat wooden strips or planks l5 separated from each other by an intermediate space 16, and united by crosscleats 1'? nailed or otherwise secured thereto. r1he lower ends ofthe cleats 17 rest on the bottom of the tank while the ends of the -ba le are fitted to diagonally opposite corners of the tank. rlhis baille forms in part the subject-matter of van application filed by me January 9, 1929, Serial No. 331,250, and the subject-matter of the present invention is not 'concerned therewith.

-upper wide/end projects through a correspondingly shaped opening in the roof boards 12, fitting and projecting above said opening as shown in lhg. 3. Attached to the 'roof `boards 12 around the projecting portion of the spout is a sealingV member consisting of :t ring :formed with a base portion 2O restingzf: on the root boards l2 and attached to the latter asby bolt-s 2l, and an upstand ing flange substantially parallel with the projecting portion dt' the spout 19 which said flange encireles. On the upwardly projecting Yportion ot the spout-119 is a depeiuling channel shaped flange Q3 that embraces the upstanding'iiange Q2 of the sealing ring. Between the :upstanding flange 22 and the channelshaped flange E23 there is interposed a` chinA nel-shaped packing 24 which ettiectually seals the joint between said parts, preventing the 1 entrance of dust, cinders or water around the upper edge of the sealing ring.

The'lid or fcover tor the lilling spout or chute herein shown 'forms in part thesubject-W matter of iny earlier liied application, Serial No. 192,609, and constitutes no partei the present invention, butY may be briefly described as consisting of' a sheet-metal plate 25 of a size to cover the upper endroit the spout and flanged on three sides as shown at 25 to overlap the fiange 23 g a. 1elock 2Q, preferably otwood. of a size to interlit the upper end of the spout, and an underlying thin nietal plate Q7 on the lower side of the block 2G; said parts 25, 26 and 27 all being securely united by through bolts 28. To the top of the lid or cover thus formed are attached, conveniently by the saine through bolts 28, a. pair of hingelstrapsiQS), the rearwardly extending ends of whichY are curled, a. Vshown at Q9a in Fig. 3 to embrace a hinge pintle 30 that ef:-Y

tends through holes in a pair ot' hinge lugs 3l that areY Welded or otherwise secured to the sealing ring 20, Encircline the hinge pintle 30 between and outside the eyesQS):t ot' the hinge straps are spacing sleeves 32 and 33. l he above described structure of lid or cover altords a` very strong and snugly litt-ing closure for the tilling spout, the edges of which are effectively sealed by reason ol' its overlapping engagementwith the upper sealed end of the lilling spout. V

I claimw l Y 1. T he combination with a car roof formed f with an opening and a Water tank therebeneath, of a lilling spout mounted inthe roof of said tank illing and projecting above said. car roof opening, saidspout formed with an integral external depending flange on its upper end and an angle sealing ring having a base portion resting on and attached to said car roof around the projecting portion ot said spout and an upstandingflange at its upper end encircled by said depending flange and forming a dust and wat r prooi` joint with the latter. l

9,. The combination with a carroof fornied with an opening and a water tank therebeneatli, of a filling spout mounted in the roof of said tank Yfilling and projecting above said car roof opening, said spout formed with an .integral laterally otfset external (lL-rpeuding fla nge nn its upper end, an angle sealing ring having a base portion resting on and atl tarhed to said car root' arouu the projecting portion ot said spout and an upstanding i'lange at its upner end embraced by said depending flange, and a lli-.shaped packing ring fitting over said upstanding 'flange and (ronlined laterally between said spout and its depending fienge.

ISRAEL V. EDGERTON. 

